Heather du Plessis-Allan hits the nail right on the head on her column, "No Jacinda, critics aren't racist", says Hugh Perrett. Photo / Michael Craig
Māori co-governance column spot on
An excellent article from Heather du Plessis-Allan ("No Jacinda, critics aren't racist", HoS, July 4). She hits the nail right on the head when she says: "This stuff is almost certainly going to anger people. It's hardly going to lead to a more cohesive society."
Altogether a masterpiece of understatement.
Hugh Perrett, Remuera
Discipline at the front
Judith Collins bemoans the ill- discipline of her caucus. I remind her that good discipline will inevitably follow a good leader — a leader who hasn't been so central to so many bitter and recent leadership battles.
Larry Mitchell, Rothesay Bay
Institutions homing in
Will New Zealand follow the recent American trend on single-family homes? Major financial institutions are buying up single-family homes at an increasing rate, paying as much as $100,000 above asking price, (thus shutting out private buyers) and then putting the houses on the rental market. Already they reputedly own 2 per cent of that housing estate. There are also reports of such institutions making bulk buys of entire new-build developments such as cul-de-sacs immediately that the developer has completed the houses.
G.N. Kendall, Rothesay Bay
Plastic policy ridiculous
This world we inhabit is to my mind becoming "curioser and curioser". Take shopping. I buy a bulky pair of pyjamas and two bulkier bath towels which, after payment, are presented to me without packaging of any sort. Inconvenient to say the least. Seems I should provide my own bag. Groceries: We are denied plastic bags, that is understandable, we use our own shopping bags, but then the items we buy are tightly encased in plastic. Most of the material from grocery shopping that I discard is plastic — lots of it, and it's not my fault. This is quite ridiculous.
A N Christie, Rotorua
